Wedding Photos of Rock

The following “Rock” images were created by documentary wedding photographers from the WPJA, who regularly submit their best candid moments, artistic portraits, details, and scene setters for review by our WPJA competition judges.

WEDDINGS + ELOPEMENTS + ARTISTIC PORTRAITS & DETAILS + ENGAGEMENT SESSIONS

Some of the “Rock” marriage photography samples below may have come from the getting ready events, the actual wedding ceremony, the reception after-party, an engagement session with the couple, or possibly be artistic portraits or detail shots.

FINE ART WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY: Our Artistic Guild award winners take a more creative approach to wedding day Portraits and use their innovative skills to capture the Details of each couple’s special day. The Artistic Guild’s Scene Setters are some of the most notable and breathtaking from within the artistic WPJA contest categories. Playing with light and shadow, special effects, and post-production editing, these images embrace the artistic component of wedding photography.

PRE-WEDDING ENGAGEMENT PHOTOGRAPHY: The story of every couple starts long before the wedding day, and the engagement marks one of the most important milestones in their story. Engaged couples often want to celebrate the occasion and announce their upcoming wedding with a photoshoot. Pre-wedding portraits of an engaged couple can be just as moving and compelling as the images taken on the wedding day. Engagement portraits can win a Diamond Award, an exclusive WPJA award whose winner is selected from the best engagement photography in the world.

Rocky Mountain Romance | Fall Foliage Frames Love Story Amidst Majestic Colorado Peaks

A couple in Fort Collins, Colorado, captured a special moment together as they posed on a rock for their engagement portrait

Romantic Engagement Portrait: Fort Collins Couple Poses on Scenic Rock

Fort Collins couple scenic Fort Collins rock Colorado romantic special moment

The black and white wedding portrait captured the couple standing on a rock at Anse Sourse d´Argent beach in La Digue, Seychelles, with dramatic clouds in the background

La Digue, Seychelles: Couple's Stunning Black and White Wedding Portrait at Anse Sourse d´Argent Beach

Anse Sourse dArgent beach couple rock dramatic clouds Seychelles Wedding Portrait wedding portrait Seychelles

Cappadocia post proposal photography showing a smiling Turkey couple with a hot air balloon and an arid landscape, rock, desert, view, sandstone, valley, travel, formation, geology, turkey, plateau

Cappadocia Photographer hot air balloon arid landscape Cappadocia sandstone rock valley

Sintra couples wooded lifestyle photography in Lisbon, Portugal as the pair stand in a rock with big trees at their backs

forest stand Lisbon Sintra Portugal copule portrait big trees rock

Moraine Lake couples portraits lifestyle session in Alberta, Canada with the lovers seated on a rock above the water in the mountains

lovers Moraine Lake lifestyle session Alberta fog mountains Alberta

Canada couples portrait lifestyle sessions at Moraine Lake in Alberta as they stand on the rock in the rugged mountains

Canada couple portrait cliffs backcountry Moraine Lake nature Alberta lifestyle session Moraine Lake Alberta

Great wedding photography of this Loveland, Colorado couple standing on a rock by a river at Sylvan Dale Ranch

rock Loveland wedding Sylvan Dale Ranch weddings Mark Creery Sylvan Dale Ranch CO wedding photography river

A Virginia Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this creative, adventurous portrait of this VA couple sitting on a rock with the majestic view of the Shenandoah

Virginia view virginia engagement photographer VA couple majestic Anastasiia Polyakov Shenandoah

Scenic Fort Tyron Park, NYC engagement picture below the epic rock cliffs and trees

trees NYC engagement picture New York cliffs forest rock

Horsetooth Reservoir, Fort Collins pre-wedding engagement session capturing The couple standing on a rock overlooking the reservoir during sunset

reservoir Mark Creery sunset Horsetooth Reservoir rock couple standing Colorado

Cappadocia couple pre-wed portrait of a couple that was sitting high up on a solid rock

elegant couple formal wear Cappadocia rock low angle Cappadocia engagement photography

A pre-wedding session in Brevard, NC highlighting the couple posing at a rock outcropping with fall color

Brevard photographer fall color rock Brevard wedding photography Brevard NC

Vosges outside environmental couple prewedding photoshoot showing love is a rock

love couple rock prewedding photoshoot outside Vosges

Grounds For Sculpture environmental couple pre wedding image session while standing in front of rock

standing nj couple nj pre wedding image rock Grounds For Sculpture

Dream Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park outside environmental pre wedding photo shoot with a Couple sitting on rock

couple sitting RMNP outside rock Dream Lake pre wedding photo shoot Rocky Mountain National Park

Iceland environmental couple pre wedding image session in the rock canyon with light coming through the crack opening

Iceland Iceland photographer canyon Iceland couple Pre Wedding Image light rock

On location Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado engagement portrait shoot with a Couple standing on rock in Fall

Rocky Mountain National Park CO engagement portrait shoot Colorado rock fall Colorado wedding photography couple standing

Trégastel, France couple e-shoot in the rock openings with a lower reflections

Patrick Lombaert french openings Tregastel rock reflections France couple

True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session in Lake Louise, Banff illustrating a couple standing and kissing on a rock in the water

couple standing snow Banff engagement Banff Banff National Park kissing Canada

True Love Engagement Posed Portrait in Lake Tahoe, NV capturing a couple embraces while sitting on a rock with the expanse of the water in the background

background NV Posed Portrait sitting Lake Tahoe NV photographer water

TN True Love Engagement Picture Session in Foothills Parkway showing a couple standing on a rock at one of the parkways overlooks

Foothills Parkway overlook TN Engagement Picture parkway view standing blue sky

Horsetooth Reservoir, Fort Collins on-location portrait e-shoot - a couple stands on rock as sea gulls fly overhead

Horsetooth Reservoir, Fort Collins on location portrait e shoot as a couple stands on rock as sea gulls fly overhead

rock standing overhead Fort Collins e shoot fly Horsetooth Reservoir Fort Collins couple

Hana, Maui Fine Art Pre Wedding Portrait in a sea rock cave with a sweet kiss

sea Hana Hawaii cave rock Maui

Saint Jean de Luz, France Fine Art Engagement Session in BW with the Couple kissing

rock kissing black and white monochrome France france engagement

Rocky Mountain National Park Pre Wedding Photoshoot in a Fine Art Style for a Colorado Couple sitting on a rock surrounded by golden aspen leaves in the Fall

Rocky Mountain National Park Golden leaves Colorado couple fall rock Aspen

Moraine Lake, Banff National Park, AB, Canada micro outdoor mountain photo session before the wedding day perched on a rock with colorful Umbrellas

Banff National Park Outdoor AB Moraine Lake pre wedding rock mountain

Brainard Lake, Ward, CO creative couple wedding portrait of the bride and groom posing together on a rock at twilight following their elopement

Ward weddings rock Ward CO Brainard Lake creative couple wedding portrait elopement

A Richmond Foggy Morning Engagement Session by the rocks and water

sand Richmond engagement Richmond ocean Morning Engagement Session sea shore

Nevada pre wedding and engagement photography at Hidden Beach: Lake Tahoe, NV of a Woman jumping from rock to rock in a large lake at sunset

awesome sunset pre wedding image Lake Tahoe woman Hidden Beach rock lake Lake Tahoe

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